The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

IPERIAL PARLIAMENT _ ROUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening, The LORD CHANCELLOR tO:k his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. NEW PEERS. Lord HOWARD and Lord Da FREyNE took the oaths and their seats as Peers of the United Kingdom. COUNTY COURTS'. Lord CHELMSFORD presented a number of petitions from the tallymen of Doncaster, Liverpool, Manchester, and other places against the County Courts Bill. WEIGHTS AND 'MEASURES. Lord WROTTESLEY moved for papers referring to the standard of weights and measures. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. In reply to the Earl of STANHOPE, Earl GRANVILLE said he was not aware of any cor respondence between the Board of Works and the Roya Academy, but if there were no doubt it would be produced PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Scottish North-Eastern and Alyth Railway Company— Scottish tNorth-Eastern and Perth Almond Valley and Methven Railway—North British Railway —Liverpool and London Fire and Life and Globe Insurance Company— Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway—Denburn Valley —Scottish North-Eastern and Scottish Cent: al Railway Companies. . THE QUEEN'S 111 ESSAGE.-PENSION TO THE COUNTESS OF ELGIN. Her Majesty's message upon this subject having been read by the clerk at the table, annum. The Earl of ELLENBOROUH felt great pleasure in endorsing all that had fallen from the President of the Council in his eulogy of the late Earl of Elgin. As a public servant the deceased nobleman had won the gratitude of the whole nation, and it was much to be regretted that for tune had been so capricious. No appointment had ever been made which had given greater satisfaction to all parties Able, prudent, resolute, unimpassioned, he appeared to be of all men the hest calculated to act in the true spirit of his wise and beneficent proclamation in India. We acknow ledge his worth, and all that remains for us to do is, as far as we can, to make such provision for his bereaved widow, that anxiety for the future may not increase the poignancy of the grief she must ever retain in contemplating the memory and the glory of her noble husband. The Earl of DERBY could not deny himself the pleasure of paying a brief tribute to the memory of the late Lord Elgin, He had watched with great interest the brilliant career of the deceased nobleman from the time he first left England for Jamaica. In all his subsequent actions he had well maintained the honours he had won, and he could not let the present occasion pass without bearing his testimony to the excellency of his character, and his admiration of his conduct as a public man. The motion was then agreed to. THE WEST RIDING ASSIZES. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved that an address be pre sented praying her Majesty that the late decision ordering the removal of the West Riding Assizes from York to Leeds, instead of Wakefield, be reconsidered. Lord HOUGHTON seconded the motion. The question was purely a provincial one, but the magistracy of York shire were united in favour of Wakefield, and he could not conceive what could have induced her Majesty's Go. vernment to act in opposition to their wishes by selecting Leeds. He trusted that the Government would not object to reconsider their decision. Earl GRANII ILLE said the opinions of the magistrates had not been overlooked, but the Privy Council did not think that those opinions ought to be allowed to preponde rate in the matter. As to the selection of Leeds, there had been no other motive except that of public convenience. The Privy Council had carefully considered the claims both of Leeds and Wakefield, and had come to the conclu sion that Leeds was besi adapted for the assize town. As to the motion, he did not think, if it were carried, that it would lead to any practical result, and he should therefore oppose it. Lord BROUGHAM said he had heard the qu2stion discussed 60 years ago, when the general opinion was in favour of not removing the assizes from 'York at al! ; hut if any alteration was to be made, the opinion was universally in favour of Leeds. Lord FAVERSHAM stated that when he canvassed the county some years ago this very question was mooted, and he never heard the name of Leeds mentioned at all. lie believed that the Government had been influenced in the matter by an hon. gentleman whom he then saw at the bar. [Mr Baines, member for Leeds.] Earl D E GREY and RI PON said the Privy Council had found it impossible to resist the claim of the West Riding of Yorkshire to have a separate ass:ry, nithou ii :ll the magfi;- trates of the county were opposed to the removal of the .assiz2 from York, It was considered most convenient that Leeds should be selected as the new assize town, on account of its being the centre of the manufacturing and commercial district of the West Riding, and because it had a population of 270,000, while that of Wakefield was only 23,000. The Earl of DERBY thought the great balance of opinion both on the part of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject of the magistrates who were locally interested in the question of the inhabitants of the West Riding, and of the surveyors who were recently sent down by the Governmen,: to make inquiries in the district, was strongly in favour of Wakefield as against Leeds. He ad vised Lord Wharncliffe to withdraw the motion, but said that he should vote in favour of it if it were pressed. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE declined to withdraw the motion. After some observation from Lord CRANWORTH and the LORD CHANCELLOR, their lordships divided, when the numbers were— For the motion SO Against 54 Majority The motion was accordingly agreed to. The public Schools Bill passed through committee. Reports of amendments on the Admiralty Lands and Works Bill, and on the Court of Justiciary (Scotland) Bill, were brought up and agreed to. The Scottish Episcopal Clergy Disabilities Removal Bill passed through committee. The Insane Prisoners' Act Amendment Eill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF commoNs.--Last Evening. The SPEAXED, took the chair at 4 o'clock. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Chat in g• cross Railway, Cheddar Valley and Yatton Railway (changed from So merset and D orset R a il way ) , Londonderry Improvement, Somerset and Dorset Railway (changed flora Somerset and Dorset Railway Extension to Shepton 'Mallet"), Stamford and Resendine Railway, Weald of Kent Railway, and Worcester, Bromyard, and Leomin ster Railway. HERNE BAY, HAMPSHIRE, AND RECUL-vER FISHERY BILL.—THE OYSTER SUPPLY. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Sir E. DERING moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months, He founded his amendment on the fact that about an area of' nine miles, which was directed to the supply of the public with so essential an article of consumption as oysters, was about being absorbal by a private company. Sir B. BRIDGES seconded the amendment, and some discussion followed. The amendment was negatived without a discussion, and the bill was accordingly read a second time. HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS IN THE NORTH PACIFIC. Mr WATKIN asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether her Majesty's Government, bearing in mind the existence and extension of the naval stations of the United States near San Francisco and of Russia at Sitka, proposed to establish any means for enabling the docking and repair of her Majesty's ships in the North Pacific ; and if so, whether the harbour of Esquimalt had been selected as the site, • Mr CIIILDERS, in the absence of Lord C. Paget, ex plained that negotiations were going on on the subject, bat he could not enter into official details at present. THE PROPOSED NATIONAL GALLERY AT BUR ___ LINGTON HOUSE. Mr HIBBERT asked the First Commissioner of Works whether, as the vote for the new National Gallery at Bur lington House bad been rejected, it was his intention to take any steps to obtain possession of the rooms now occupied by the Royal Academy in Tra falgar -square, so as to render the same available for the exhibition of the national pictures. Mr GREGORY also asked the right hon. gentleman whether it was the intention of the Government to take immediate steps to procure the buildings to the rear of the National Gallery, inasmuch as the present structure is not large enough properly to exhibit all the national pictures and selections from the national drawings. Mr CO WPER rebated the statement he had previously made, to the effect that arrangements were made for securing ample accommodation for the great national collection o f pictures-, which ware at present not placed in that position to which, from their instrinsic value as a means of instruc tion for the public mind, they were entitled. _ _ _ MAJOR GORDON. Mr. LIDDELL asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by whose orders and under what instruc tions Major Gordon was appointed to the command of the Chinese disciplined force now employed in suppressing the rebellion in China, and empowered to conduct the present military operations, having for their object the restoration of Nankin to Imperial rule, inasmuch as Sir Frederick Bruce, in the enclosure of a despatch to Earl Russell, dated June 12, 1863, being copy of a memorandum addressed by him to Prince Kung on June 6, 1873, states 4 $ that he, Sir Earl GRANVILLE moved that her Majesty's gracious message be :taken into consideration. His lordship com menced by tracing the brilliant career of the late Earl of Elgin from the time of his leaving Oxford until his death in India. He eaid he had no doubt their lord ships would readily concur with the recommendation of her Majesty to recognise the services of the late Earl of Elgin, who was struck down by the fatal climate of India, by granting Lady Elgin £l,OOO per annum. From the Indian Fund £l,OOO had been already voted, by which arrangement the combined pension would then amount to £2,000 per The motion having been seconded by Mr. BAILLIB, Mr H. GRENFELL argued, in opposition to the pro posal, that no wrong had been done to Azeem Jah, who, during his whole life, had enjoyed the protection of the English Government. If the committee were granted, it would be tantamount to an admission that he had suffered wrong, and that would be contrary to the opinion of some of the most eminent statesmen. it would also necessitate an instraction to the committee to provide a remedy, and the remedy must be either to confer upon him the mock throne of the Carnatic or give him a large pecuniary com pensation. Before doing that, it was necessary to show that wrong had been committed, and next that it could be re medied without inflicting wrong upon others. And he held that both these elements were wanting in the case. Sir J. FERGUSSON said that if the committee were appointed their inquiries would be useless, because no fresh evidence could be collected on the subject. But they might do this. They might find a bill of indictment against faithful and able servants of the Crown who, after passing their lives in honour, had gone to the grave amidst the regrets and with the respect of all. He called upon the house not to re-open a question which had been settled upwards of GO years ago. Mr B AILLIE observed that there were two important admissions in the treaty of 1801; first, that the Nawab was the legitimate Sovereign of the Carnatic, and nest that the East India Company had acquired the right to govern the Carnatic, not by conquest, but by treaty. If then the treaty had ceased to exist, by what title, he should like to know,:thd we now possess the territory ? Mr LOWE was not prepared to say that the transaction was one in which we could take much pleasure, but he argued that the treaty was entered into without any inten tion of conveying rights to descendants. The Anglo-Indian Government retained to themselves the right of considering whether they would allow a new nomination to the nawab ship of the Carnatic, and all that could be said was that, in two cases, they elected to do so, and in the third that they would not. On a division the motion was negatived by 62 to 45. Mr HENNESSY expressed his surprise that the house had been permitted to go to a division without the Secretary for India offering any explanation on the subject. Mr MALINS also rebuked Sir C. Wood for the indiffe rence with which he had treated the matter, and the exulta tion with which he had hailed the result of the division. Lord PALMERSTON said that if his right hon. friend had manifested any exultation it was owing to the tact that the hon. and learned gentleman, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who was known to be full of the subject and prepared to support the motion for inquiry, was so entirely dumbfounded by the arguments opposed to it, that he was unable to reply. Sir F. KELLY owned that he had been outwitted by the tactique of the Government; but ho now gave notice that, in justice to the honour of the house, he should take the earliest opportunity of reviving the discussion. Mr W. B, FORSTER stated that he had given his vote with the minority on the single ground that the Secretary for India had not risen to defend the conduct of his own administration. Sir C. WOOD contended that, as his department had been assailed, he had a right, as the defendant, to hear all the case against it before he delivered a reply. Moreover, he considered the speeahes of Sir J. Fergusson and Mr Lowe were ample defence. Lord STANLEY regretted that Lord Palmerston should have regarded the motion in the light of a party attack, seeing that in the division one half the support received by the Government had come from the Opposition side of the house, The houro then went into committee of supply, and agreed to several votes on account of tee civil service. NEW ZEALAND (GUARANTEE OF LOAN). The hawse went into committee on this bill. Mr. CARDWELL said that papers relating to the pro areas of the war in New Zealand had recently been laid on .he table of that house. He had seen in the newspapers ac counts which, he was happy tc say, did not correspond with those which had reached him officially. He had received by this mail accounts of two conflicts which had taken place between our troops and the native chiefs—one in the neigh bourhood of Plymouth, and the other with Gen. Cameron's force. The first was an operation conducted by Gen. "Ward with great success, and was carried out fortunately with the smallest loss, no one being killed, and only four wounded. The Governor and General Cameron spoke of that action in the highest terms. A more important engagement had taken place with General Cameron's force, with reference to which he was glad to say the reports of adisastrons failure through a subordinate were not correct. All he could say was that according to the intelligence which had reached him, the victory over the natives by General Cameron was complete and decisive, and the extensive district was now in posses sion of the Government. He would now turn to what was the immediate object. It would be in the recollection of the house that a proposal had been made last session for a loan of half a million, but, for reasons stated in the correspond ence now before him, that proposal had not succeeded ; and it now devolved upon him to renew the proposal in a diffe rent form. The correspondence showed that the colony of New Zealand desired to raise a loan of £3,000,000. The Finance Minister of the colony had discussed the matter with him ; but he (Mr. Cardwell) gave him to understand at the outset that he could not undertake on the part of the Imperial Government to submit any proposal to Parliament for so large a sum as £3,000,000. The question, then, was, whether they should limit themselves to the £500,000 of last session. The guarantee of £500,000 had nothing to do with the expense of the war. The Imperial Government in the course of the present year had advanced £300,000, and therefore if the guarantee were confined to £500,000 the whole would be absorbed in the amount due to the Treasury. It was now proposed to guarantee a loan of £1,000,000, £500,000 to be paid to the Imperial Treasury, and £500,000 to be at the disposal of the Colonial Govern ment; and he thought the correspondence would show that there was ample security for this loan. It might be asked why they came forward to guarantee at all But the reasons were the great expense caused by having so many of the Population of New Zealand under arms, the necessity for making roads, and surveys, and carrying out many other improvements. If the proposal were agreed to, the whole of the amount due w the Imperial Treasury would be re paid, and at the close of the present year New Zealand wculd contribute, like the rest of the Australian territory, her proportion of the military expenditure, namely, at the rate of £4O for every infantry soldier and £.55 for every ar tilleryman. Th e only exception was the difference of one reg iment in favour of New Zealand, for which a sum of £20,000 would be allowed as heretofore, Ther y reso T l o ut u i he would offer no opposition pro vided'would give s u ffi c i en t ti me A 7 T having si Ri d been read, and he would f(x th e the readingri ht o h f o t er h . o g e c o n r r t a p o a n n deuce. Mer for C A of affording sufficient tim perusalLLo f w t b as e desirousc or responde nce, not take the second reading be f ore that day Week. the ß D S V E Sir H.WILLOUGHBY thought the Proper time for dis cussion was the present occasion, when in c ommittee. The correspondence was only delivered that morning, lie had only looked cursorily through it, but he had Been enough to warn the committee of the anxious state of New Zealand. The account app eare d t o him to be more complicated than was indicated in the statement of the right hen. gentleman. He owned he could not understand where the surplus fund was to be found that was to secure the payment of the debt and to protect the imperial treasury from the risks of gua, ranteeing the loan. Mr. WHALLEY had seen a statement put forward in a New Zealand newspaper to the effect that, wher ever Sir George Grey went, he found evidence that the recent rebellion had originated in the conduct of the Roman Catholic priesthood—(oh, oh, and laughter) and he wished to know whether the right hon. gentleman had receivel any communication from Sir George Grey confirmatory of that statement. (Laughter.) Mr ADDERLEY said no doubt the circumstances of the case were peculiar, and that there were very strong reasons why the house should entertain the proposal of a guarantee. The spirit which New Z.Aland had shown in meeting its difficulties was an example to all our other colorties—(hear) —and, in the next place, the condition which would be at tached to the guarantee. that for the future the colony were willing to pay for all the Imperial troops quartered there with the exception of one regiment, recommended the reso lution to the. adoptioa of the house. Not desiring to be understood as expressing any deliberate opinion upon the whole proposition until he had been able to read the cor respondence, he nevertheless inclined to the opinion that the proposal of the Government ought to be supported. Mr HASSARD suggested the desirability of their being put n postiesaoh of wore detailed keen:twin, with respect Frederick Bruce, must decline to allow officers of her Majes ty's army to take any part in military operations further than may be necessary for the protection of British inter , sts, and his first step, consequently, would be to desire that Major Garden and others serving with him at Shanghae should not pass the boundary described as the 3) wif e radius. Mr LAYARD said that all the infornar on asked for would be found in the blue books, which could be referred to by any hon. member. THE CONFERENCE. In reply to Mr B. OSBORNE and Mr LNG LAKE, Lord PALMERSTON declined to verify officially any statement that appeared in the ilioniing lost or any other newspaper relative to the Danish Conference. (Laughter.) He was not in a position to confirm any newspaper statement as to what the Danish Plenipotentiaries said or did. (Laughter) The statement he had made to the house was sufficiently explanatory, and there were no new cir cumstances that called for any supplemental statement. An Hon. MEMBER—f he noble lord has not, to my mind, made a satisfactory statement in regard to this matter. Lord PALMERSTON said he did not feel himself called upon to deal with every variety of mind which might arise even in that house, and all that he could do was to make a clear and so far as ho could a logical statement. (Hear, and laughter.) THE NAWAB OF THE CARNATIC. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr SMOLLETT moved that a select committee be ap pointed to inquire into the claims of his Highness Azeem Jah to the title and dignity of the Nawab of the Carnatic ; and further to report upon the circumstances under which the treaty entered into between his high ness's father, Azeem ul Dowlah and the East India Com pany, dated the 31st day;of July, 1801, had been declared void. Tlifd.4 SUN, LONDO,T, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1864. to the finances of New Zealand, in order that they might be able to jadge whether the surplus fund relied upon existed. Mr CARDWELL explained that the loan was to be a first charge upon the general expeniliture of the clleny. Mr WHALLEY requested an answer with respect to his inquiries on the conduct of the Roman Catholic priest hood. Mr CARD WELL said he did not think it was necessary at so late a period of the evening to go into such matters. (Cheers and laughter.) The resolution was then agreed to. COLLECTION OF TAXES BILL, On the order of the day for the third reading of this bill, Sir W. JOLLIFFE appealed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to press forward so unpopular a bill until more time had been allowed for the consideration of its pro vistors. He moved the adjournment of the debate. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the house had concurred in the principle of the bill ; so ho hoped that the house would not concur in the motion. Mr NE I T TDF,GATE said that great dissatisfaction existed in the country as to the nature and objects of the bill with reference to the exemption of the large towns, and on those grounds he should support the motion, so as to give an opportunity for further discussion. After some explanations from Mr HARVEY LEWIS in explanation of his reasons for withdrawing his amendment for exempting large towns, Mr KNIGHT supported the motion. The house divided, with the following result— Ayes Noes Majority Sir W. JOLLIFFE expressed his regret that the right hon. gentleman should persevere at so late an hour of the morning (ono o'clock). Mr HENNESSY moved that the house do now adjourn. Mr NE WDEGATE urged the right hon. _gentleman not to persevere. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yielded to the suggestion of Mr Newdegate, and put the third reading for Thursday next. SUPPLY. The report of supply was brought up and agreed to. PUBLIC AND REFRESHMENT HOUSES (ME TROPOLIS) BILL. This bill passed through committee. PILOTAGE ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. This bill was read a second time. SUPERANNUATION (UNION OFFICERS) BILL. This bill was read a second time. BEER-HOUSES (IRELAND) BILL. The amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. COVENTRY FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. This bill was read a second time. The Settled Estates Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. BURIALS REGISTRATION BILL. This bill passed through committee. The County Constabulary Superannuation Bill was read a second time. The house then adjourned. DENMARK. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) ELSINOItE, June 9. Yesterday the King opened the new railway line which has just been completed between Copenhagen and Elsinore. The distance as the crow flies ie not much more than 20 English miles. They have made the railway more than one-third longer by going round to Fredericksborg and Fredensborg, so that the fastest trains will not get over the ground in less than two hours, which is just the time em ployed by the steamers plying from port to port. Speed of locomotion and the time gained by it are, however, no objects with these good Danes, and they think little of the loss of an hour in a line of first rata European importance. This line is to join the Swedish railways at Helsingborg, across the Sound, the train being carried over the three miles of water by one of those ferries on the American plan, con structed for that purpose. It will thus become the direct means of communication between Stockholm and Copenhagen; further, by following the line from Copenhagen toKorsor, from Korsor by another ferry to Nyeborg by rail to Middlefart, from Middle fart by ferry to Snoghoi, in Jutland, and thence all across Schleswig and Holstein to Hamburg, this will travel over Zsaland, Funen, and across the Oresund and the Great and the Little Belts, convey ing passengers in the same carriage from the two Northern capitals to the great German free city and the rest of the world. We were all assembled at the terminus (Clampen borg station) in Copenhagen at half.past 11. The King was there, the Queen, th© Crown Prince, the Princess Digmar, and about 200 persons, Cabinet Ministers, civil, military, and naval officers, cour tiers, railway directors, and other citizens; most of the people in uniform; almost all with stars and crosses, cordons and keys, a good;y display of the world's vanities, all glittering in the sun of one of what the English people called " Queen's-days," the weather being as propitious to the movements of Royalty in Denmark as it is proverbially in England, The district travelled over by this short lino may be called the garden of Zsaland ; it is a blessed land, equally good to live and to look upon. Four or five of the greatest Royal parks stretch in eight of the line to the right and left—Clianotten-land, Dyr have, Hovelte, ; sweeps of the richest meadow land and masses of the thickest forest verdure swell about far and wherever the eye turrs. It is Eng lish landscape in its happiest mood, with the addi tional peculiarity of broad sheets of water here and there; the mirror ever ready wherever there is beauty to rejoice in its reflection. At most of the stations the train stopped, as I said; here the local authorities stepped up to the King's -carriage as it slackened speed ; there the King himself and his suite and all of us alighted, and there was interchange of obeisances, congratu tions, and good wishes. The whole population of the neighbourhood, as a matter of course, crowded together at these halting -places—a well-dressed, good-looking, wellebehaving Danish multitude. The King stepped down not merely in front of them, but among them—into them,—the King and the Queen, and the Crown Prince--a rather tall, handsome young gentleman, in the uniform of a field-officer of the infantry of the line —and that lovely Princess D igraar, so young and modest and ingenuous, looking evidently happy with the gaiety and the novelty of the scene, as were also her parents, for the reception they met with every where eves so hearty and genuine as to dispel even the cloud of care so habitually set on the noble brow of the Queen. Truly this a good-locking family, and I am sure the impression they made yesterday upon thousands of their subjects, to whom their facas were as yet unfamiliar, was that no kingly race ever better became their station than this "newly-arrived" house, who seem to take so little of the greatness of Royalty upon themselves. Not the King only, but the Queen, the Prince, and even the young Princess mixed singly with the crowd, and had a word to say to all who were not too shy to approach them. No won der the arrival and departure of the train were the signals for the loudest shouts of the delighted assem blage. At Fredericksborg, especially, the scene was extremely animated ; dense throngs of ladies, in the gayest attire, filled up all open spaces and slread widely over the avenues, their handkerchiefs wav ing in the air beautifully contrasting with the variety of their rainbow dresses and pink parasols. They looked like an animated Dannebrog—all red and white. Those dear national colours, floating above the buildings, absorbed all other hues dis played by the motley multitude. An e ffecting scene awaited us as we burst in sight of the Sound just upon nearing Elsinore. The train Came to a standstill on an elevated position near the shore, and drswn up in a line before us wesaw about a dozen of the men of-war of the Baltic fleet, from every one of which the cannon gave its thunder of welcome to the king. On the lend side, along the road, were most of the crews of those ships in their clean blue shirts, presenting arms; their trumpets, rather more in tune than the bugler of the land troops, struck up the noble strain "Kong Christian stod ved hoien Mast"--a strain that went some of th ose emotions which through the nerve s o f most bystanders, and th r ill e d them s withwe are lea s t i n quest of them. I twh en was c ome upon u impossible to l oo k at those fair, weather beaten mariners, as we w ent past the long row of f aces , without feeling convinced that one stood in presence ok h e of of English t ars . Th e o shape, goodly the array bearing e a r ing of the m en are identi cal. The very sound of the langua ge di sp l ays the itsha a p greatest affinity. There were men i n t h e Danish army at Sonderborg who used to startle me as I heard them talking among themselves, because I actually thought that their idiom was not only like Bug list, but actual English. This is especially the case, I am told, with some of the people of West Jut land and Schleswig, whose dialects are not altoge ther unintelligible when they come ashore in some of the English northern counties or in the Scottish lowlands. Truly a closer kin s hip th an ex i s t s be tween Great Britain and Denmark is nowhere to be found on earth ; and it seems hard, indeed, that the bigger sister should not raise as much as a little finger in b e half of the younger on e , t o save h er from the two great bullies who have almost beaten the soul out of her body. Presently we all set foot on Elsinore, and the King and suite proceeded in carriages to the shore a of the Sound, where they slighted in sight of the Kreisberg and of the Swedish coast, the King stand. ing on a high spot near the shore and pointing out the most salient objects to the Queen, who seemed to be a stranger in these parts, and was delighted with what she saw. There was then a backward move, and all joined again at the Skyte-bane, or shooting gallery, a large building and grounds near the station belonging to the rifle club of the town, where the feast was spread. I happen to have been more than once present at r the opening of railways by th e Ki ng o f I ta l y, an d I w With the difference with which a s can be gone through in different countries. In particularlyt the sam e Italy the road from Bo logna to Ancona, or from th e l atter place to Pes• cars, traverses classic ground, and the names of Facnza, Rimini, Pesaro, &e., make a far different im pression on the ear from those of Heilerup, Lyngby, Birkerod, &c., which no man has ever heard out of Denmark, and with which the Dane himself has no great traditions to associate. Moreover, the Italians are a loud, demonstrative people; art and taste come natural to them in the decoration of their festivals. Those provinces, besides, were newly rescued from the most crushing tyranny ; the locomotive was as new to them as the King who had lately annexed them, the fellow-subjects who were ceasing to greet them, and the glad tidings of freedom and civilisation that came in their train. The opening of a railway under such circumstances in Italy was a political event, a peaceful revolution. :-Ter e, in Denmark, the railway comes as the last link of a long chain of gradual social progress. It delights ail, but surprises nobody. The people go out to welcome the train as a matter of com mon occurrence—a familiar object, which, if they h ave not seen here, they have seen a score of miles off: They are glad of a holiday--glad of an opyortunity for the display of loyal feelings to their Sovereign. That Sovereign is no stranger to theist; he comes to the throne as the heir of a long-csoblished dynasty in the regular course of succession, For the rest, they think little of arches, tapestries on t.'le wails and damask cloths from the windows; they br. ing themselves, and their honest, bright facs, and their lusty cheers. That must make joy enough for the r:F comers end for themselves. Anything theatrical would be out of the question ; anything even artistica: would be out of keeping with the prosaic iron rails. On one point, however, the Danes have exhibited a most decided superiority over the Italians, vnd that is the dinner. At Ancona or Pescara four or five hundred starving men, standing round ill provided tables, with hat in hand and cloak on arm, had to snatch such morsels as they could get at. wrangling and almost squabbling. In Denmark we sat about 200 in one room, seated round four longitudinal tables and a transverse one, and before us were laid about twelve dishes, handed round in as many courses, with every variety of French, German, and Peninsular wines. The din ner was a good thing; but the leisure, cordiality, and actual brotherhood with which we ate it were even better. The King sat in the middle of the high table, having his Queen on his left, the young Princess Dagmar on his right, who was supported on the other Bide by her brother, the Crown Prince. Round the same table were the Ministers, some of the great Court dignataries, and the directors of the new railway, the hosts of the day. One of these latter, a Herr David, stood up just os we had despatched our kalverigy, groncester, olivensance—i. e., when we were through about one-fourth of the dinner, and, as he stood face to face with the king, the table only intervening, he, in a short neat speech proposed the " Health of the King." The band struck up "King Christian stood by the lofty mast; " the cannon thundered outside. The toAst was received with real enthu siasm, and the King actually"jingled glasses" with Herr David. Ile then thanked the as s e mbled guests with an easy fl )w , of language and some happy allu sion to the" bark of the State that would yet be got safely out of the stormy sea," which elicited now applause. The same indefatigabl e H err D Av i d next proposed" The Queen,"for wh om the King made an appropriate answer. The turn test came for Prince Frederick, the Crown Prince, and his sister Dagmar, when the former got up and acquitted himself of his task with a readiness and aplomb quite beyond his years. The King did not for get " Th e Army an d Navy," which toast was drunk amid the strains of "Den tappre Landsoldat" and "Holmens faste Stock." The absent Were not defrauded of their share, especially King George of Greece, who, no doubt, would have been glad enough to be with us —glad to be anywhere, perhaps, rather than where he is. Bishop Monrad also proposed "The Princess of Wales," who might almcst have heard the hurrah which rose in her honours!l the way from the shores of the Oresund to her boudoirat Marlborough 1-louse. the King assured the bystanders that "his absent daughter felt as poignantly for the calamities of her country as any there prtsent.,, After one more toast, for the " good old city Elsinore," the King and suite left the table. We rose in a hu:ry and followed into the garden, whence, after a hasty cup of coae, 199 of the compa n y took their seats in the carriages back to Copenn a7 -; and only one—yotr en, correspondent—repaired to his new quarters at Elsinore. Meeting of Colliers. An open air meeting of colliers was held yesterday on a hill, called the Wren's Nest, in the Dudley district. The number present was computed at about 7,000, and it was the largest meeting of the kind that has ever been held in South Staffordshire. A procession of about 3,000 persons marched from Dudley to the place of meeting, accompanied by ton bands. Mr W. H. Miller, of Dudley, presided, and there were delegates present who represented Scotland and the northern counties. The following resolution was passed :—" That the miners of this district approve of the objects of the Miners' National Association, and pledge themselves to support its operations and contribute towards its funds." Mr J. HOLMES, of Methley, treasurer to the National Association, then spoke, and after some remarks upon the appearance of those present, gave the following statistics : —The number of collieries at work has increased from 2,397 in 1853 to 3,033 in 1862. Employed in these collieries there were, in 1861, no less than 235,590 colliers, who pro duced f'.3r sale in that year the enormous quantity of iaerag — e p d 1,015 yearly, of f 83,635,214 tons of co a l, th e va l ue o f which is estimated to theatedat Up to 1860 the nu mber of f atal d£e2alt,hosooin,oooooaplemrn an e n s u averaged thousand, more than eight times above the g eneral avera ge of deaths by violence f rom d angerous occupations; while the returns for 1861-2 sh ow t h e average to have risen to 1,061 2-3, while 1863 is still higher than the preceding years. The Registrar. General's report shows that the average of the lives of the whole Population of Great Br itain reaches 33 ' 34 years, agriculturists being 42•3, th e miner's life averages only 27 years. Ihe speaker then m aintained that the enormous amount of work done by the colliers was not properly paid for; that they were not participating, so to speak, largely enough in the profits of their ,masters ; while the risk they encountered in exposing themselves to the breathing of the foul air in a pit, which shortened their lives, was another reason why they should he well paid for their work. The income tax returns, continued he, for the past year showed that the masters were getting more wealthy every year; and he thought that th e l a b ourer s of the country should got richer too, so that by a n d by they might have a few hun dred pounds to fall back upon at a period when they were not fit for work. The Rev. J. R. STEVENS, chaplain to the National As sociation, then spoke, and was followed by the delegates; after which the meeting dispersed. [A.DvEng l sEmENT.l—Halloway's Pills ,— Wrongs made Right.—Every day that b o dily suffering is permitted to continue renders it more c er t a in to become chronic or dan gerous. Holloway's purifyin g , cooling, and strengthening Pills are well adapted for any irregularity of the huma n body, and should be taken when the stomach is disordered, the liver deranged, the kidneys inactive, the bowels torpid, or the brain muddled. With this medicine every invalid can cure himself, and those who are weak andinfirm through imperfect digestion may make themselves strong and stout by Holloway's excellent Pills. A few doses of them usua ally mitigate the most painful symptoms caused by undi gested food, from which they thoroughly free the alimen tary canal, and completely restore its natural power and action. 1 Naval and Military Intelligence, A letter from Malta says :—" Between the 2(.1 and sth of June the harbour presented unusual activity. The steam storeship Supply had arrived from Corfu; the Dromedary, from Cephalonia, with stores and baggage; and the Or lando steam frigate, and Trident steam sloop, from Cepha • lonia; the steam frigate Liffey, from Zante ; the steam fri gate Magicienne, from Santa Maura ; the steam corvette Cossack, from Ithaca ; and the screw steam line of battle ship Meeanee, from Corfu. The last six brought 39 officers, 1,118 non-commissioned officers and privates, 61 women, and 133 children of the Ist battalion, 9th Regiment. Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Galatea arrived oa the th from Corfu, bringing nine officers, 109 nun-commissioned officers and privates, 35 women, and 63 children of the Royal Engineers ; eight non commissioned officers and privates, 14 women, and 12 children of other re giments for Gibraltar, for which port she left on Jane 6. Her Majesty's screw steam troopship Himalaya arrived on the same day, likewise from Corfu, bringing 33 officers, 912 non-commissioned officers and privates, 65 women, and 102 children of the 4th Regiment and of the Royal Artillery. Her Majesty's screw steam troopship Tamar also arrived from Corfu on the 4th, bringing for Malta one non-com missioned officer and 18 privates, and for Gibraltar, for which port she took her departure on the same day, 9SO officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates of the 2d battalion, 2d Regiment. Major-Gen. Sir R. Garrett, lately commandinir the forces in the hnian Islands, and Mrs Gar rett, Capt. Beresford, A.D.C., Col. Maude, C. 8., V,C., of the Royal Artillery, with his wife and family; Col, Robert son, appointed Deputy Quartermaster-Gen. at Malta, Assist. Com.- Gen. Cruickshanks, Deputy Assist. Corm-Gen. Leach and wife, the Rev. Mr Wrench, and the Earl of March, besides several civilians, came as passengers by the above named ships of war. Her Majesty 'a screw steamship of the line, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Smart, K.H., Com mander-in-Chief, arrived on the 7th from Katackolo, in Greece, preceded on the 6th by the schooner steam yacht Undine, from the same place, having on board the Duke of Sutherland and the Earl of Sefton. The United States sailing corvette Constellation left Malta on June 1 for Alexandria. The Pigmy, Goverment paddle steam tender at Ports mouth, Master Commanding W. W. Vine, has returned to that harbour, from her temporary station, under the command of Commander Colomb, R.N., off the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where she has been engaged in experimental tele graphic operations. These telegraphic experiments have been carried on by Commander P. H. Colomb, R.N., with Capt. F. J. Bolton, 12th Regiment, F.R.G.S., under the directioa o the Admiralty and the War _office, in order to perfect a system of telegraphy applicable to one code of signalling for the use of the army and navy, and having special reference to coast defences. So far as the experi ments have yet gone, they have been most successful. Com munications by signal have been kept up for hours from the temporary signal station on St. Catherine's Down, Isle of Wight, under the direction of Capt. Bolton,• and the Pigmy steamer 24 English miles off in the Channel, under the direc tion of Commander Colomb, and from the results which have attended these experiments inferences may be safely drawn that an ordinary message of 20 words may be thus trans mitted from a look-out ship nearly halfway across the Chan nel to the nearest English headland in 15 miles. Such re sults as these bid fair to revolutionise the ordinary modes of signalling, It is understood that the Admiralty, fully ap preciating the importance of the whole question, have ordered a further series of trials to be made. The America, target-ship at Portsmouth, is again having her sides strengthened in parts, and newly planked witlx greenheart planking to reeeive armour-plates for trial. The greenheart planking is six inches in thickness inside and outside the ship's frame, and on this will be bolted with iron and steel bolts (the latter experimental) fur the next trial iron and steel armour-plates from the firms of John Brown and Co,, of the Atlas Steel and Iron Works, and from C. ' Conrail and Co., of the Cyclops Works. The Wolverine, ironca.3ed corvette, and the Research and E2terprise, rams, arrived in Great Yarmouth Roads last night, .eo await orders, it is supp ose d, f or th e N ort h . Fires were lighted in the furnaces of the Channel yesterday mo rn i ng a t Pl ymout h . T he Squadron at 7 o'cloLlk screw steamship Prince .lelasort, 35, Capt. George 0. Willes, C. 8., hove short at 9, and At half-past left the Sound by the Western Channel. The Black Prince, 41, Capt. J. B. Wainwright, second in commawi, followed. The flag- ship Edgar, 71, Capt. G. P. Hornby, cleared the western end of the Breakwater at 10 a.m., and all was ready for the immediate departure of the Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, C. E., and the Defence, 16, Capt. Augustus Phillimore. The following garrisbn order to the troops who took part in the siege operations carried out at Chatham in the pre- sence of the Prince of Wales has been issued by General H. Eyre, commanding the Chatham district : "The Major-General has been commanded by his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief to express the great satisfaction with which his Royal Highness witnessed the complete success of tho siege operations carried out in the presence of his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales. The Major General is aware, from his own personal observation, how anxiously the troops of all branches of the service (assisted as they were by the Royal Navy at this station, and the Royal Marines from - Woolwich) have endeavoured to deserve the approba tion they are all so much gratified in obtaining; but it is to the very able and skilful superintendence of Col. Harness, C. 8., Royal Engineers, and the remarkably zealous and cheerful co-operation of the °lacers, non-commissioned officers, and sappers of the Royal Engineer establishment that such a successful result must bo, chiefly due on an oc casion of the kind." The Garibaldi Testimonial Fund. A general meeting of the subscribers to this fund was held yesterday afternoon, at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street. The meeting was convened in terms of a re solution agreed to at a meeting of the general committee. held on the 30th ult., and was for the purpose of determin ing as to the future action of the committee, and of consi dering the propriety of suspending for the present all fur ther operations in the way of collecting subscriptions for the Testimonial Fund. Mr. J. A. NICHOLAY, having been voted to the chair, briefly stated the object of the meeting. Mr Jolter RICHARDSON, C.C., one of the hon. secreta ries, stated that having heard from reliable resources that the magnitude of the fund would be much impaired if fur ther proceeded with at the present time, the provincial towns being still smarting under the disappointment caused by the sudden and unexpected departure of the General from England, he had prepared a resolution, which he would submit to the m ee ti zsg , on t h e su bj ect. He must say he sleould submit that resolution with no little regret, as he could have wished to have gone on until they collected a fund worthy of the country and of the illustrious man for whom it was intended. Under present circumstances, how ever, that was impossible; and, at all events, he had the satisfaction of knowing that in the course he was pursuing he was acting in according with the feelings and the wishes of the most intimate friends of Garibaldi, as well as of that great man himself. It was not intended that the com mittee should be dissolved, but simply that its action should he suspended until the General should again revisit England, which he had every reason to believe would be at no distant period, as the people of Glasgow seemed to be in hopes of seeing him during the autumn. But, however, that might, it would be useless to proceed under present circumstances, and he therefore begged to move the follow ing resolution :—" That this committee, having carried to a successful issue the reception of Gen. Garibaldi by the people of this great metropolis, and having done their hest towards securing a testimonial to the illustrious hero worthy of the British nation, deem it to be desirable that for the present no further expenses be incurred as regards the Testimonial Fund, as most of the General's friends in the provinces seem to prefer postponing their subscriptions to the fund until he revisits England, That the accounts, therefore, be audited by the two au,ditors, Edmond Beales, Esq., M.A., and J. A. Nicholay, Esq., and that the trea surers prepare a balance -sheet thereof, to be signed by the auditors; and that a copy of it be forwarded to every sub scriber, and that the balance in hand, when ascertained, be paid over to the order of the General; and, lastly, that the honorary secretaries be requested to summons a meeting of the Garibaldi Reception and Testimonial Fund Committee as soon as they receive official intimation of the time when the General intends to revisit England." Mr Richardson, in conclusion, read a large number of letters from various gentlemen, subscribers to the fund in London and the pro vinces, all concurring in the course proposed by his re solution. Sir C. Bl‘GuEuon, Barb, seconded the resolution, and highly concurred in the course it pointed out. He had no doubt that at a future time, and when they had the General again amongst them, they would be able to carry out their original intention to its fullest extent. The resolution was supported by Mr E. Beetles, Mr Jones, and Mr Webber, C.C. ; and, on being put from the chair, was unanimously adopted. Mr RICHAE.D3ON stated, in reply to several gentlemen, that he thought, after the accounts were made up, there would be a balance of some £4OO to be remitted to General Garibaldi. That was in addition to £2OO already remitted, and independent of the Crystal Palace Fund, the accounts of which, in consequence of the absence of Mr Negretti from London, had not yet been made up, but which would be considerable. These accounts, it was expected, would be ready very soon. Mr MoRICE, after alluding to the offer made by Mr P. A. Taylor, DI. P., at the previous meeting, of allowing the cora mii te the use of the rooms of the Italian Unity Committee, in So uthampton-street, Strand, and the services of their secretary, gratis, should it be decided to continue the fund, moved, that while the committee deemed it inexpedient to accept the offer, c.e thanks of the meeting be accorded to Mr Taylor for making it. Mr ItnenannsoN having seconded the motion it was cor dially adopted. Votes of thanks were then passed to th© honorary secre taries, Mr J. B . T aylor and Mr Richardson, for their inde fatigable ex er ti ons in the cause ; to Mr B. Langley, f the him conducted man ner i n which ha and those who assisted a c conducted the p rocess i on arrangements • an d to the h - man, for his con d uct in the chair and the interest had r taken in the entire proceedings. The meeting then broke up. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The air is full of rumours of the great onslaught which the Opposition is preparing to make upon the Ministry, and the spoils of office are for the hundredth time apportioned among the ex pectant victors. It is believed that a sufficient Danish feeling exists in the country, not, indeed, to assist Denmark, but to turn out the Government which has declined actively to assist her; and a suffi cient warlike feeling, not, indeed, to go to war, but to turn out a Government for • pertinaciously adhering to peace. Direful are the threats of what will be done at a general election, and great is the gathering in the House of Commons every eight to learn from the "Questions," and still better from the " Notices of Motions," when the great day of trial will come. In this volcanic state we are grateful to any one who will give us the least means of estimating the impending phenomenon, and relieve us from the suspense in which we are involved. We, therefore, read with particular pleasure Lord Stanley's speech at the Merchant Taylors' dinner in acknowledging the toast of the House of Commons, If he is meditating an attack upon Downing-street, Lord Stanley certainly goes to the combat in a peculiarly tranquil and equable frame of mind. He seems so thoroughly content with everything that it wquld be quite a pity to introduce any change into the world which goes so smoothly. Lord Stanley says he has been for fifteen years a member of the House of Commons, and the longer and more intimately he has known it the stronger has become his respect for its opinions and the general soundness of its decisions. No tes timony can be more handsome, and no statement more convincing, than that of a statesman who thus fairly and candidly gives his evidence in favour of that very judge by whom he and his party have been repeatedly and remorselessly condemned. The history of the House of Commons for the last ten years has been the history of the reverses and defeats of the Conservative party. It has been one long tale of successive disappointments. Tantalus himself was not more cruelly or perseveringly mocked. The tide of good fortune has been for ever rising up to their lips and for ever ebbing again. In 1852 they were indulged with just so much of the sweets of office as to make them long heartily for a prolonga tion of their term, and in 1858 and 1859 they existed in office during the greater part of two sessions, without being able to make good their footing on the promised land. It is not everyone whose opinion of the House of Commons would be raised by such experience; but the Conservative leaders know their own party best, and if their opinion of the House is raised by the indisposition to trust them which it has shown during the last 12 years, it is not for us to blame the soundness of the decision. Lord Stanley admitted that for the last two or three years the House has not done much to gain credit with the public beyond maintaining a judicious inactivity. He does not take advantage of this inactive state of the House of Commons to attribute its abstinence from hard work as a fault to the Government. He looks upon it as the result of the present state of public opinion, and neither quarrels with the nation for desiring rest, nor expects to be called by his con stituents to a severe account for the easy life which he has led and the little execution he has done in the ranks of his political opponents. Nay, more ; Lord Stanley's candour compels him to admit that "in two important departments—that of Law Re form and of Finance—very considerable and prac tical improvements have been made; and no diffe rence of political connection will prevent him or those whom he addresses from doing full justice to those by whom these improvements have been initiated." This is scarcely the language of a man who •is engaged every day in considering how best he may damage and annoy the existing Go vernment,—into what part of their armour he may best introduce the point of his lance. If this speech is intended to prepare us for war, it can only be by a surprise, since no expressions can be used less cal culated to create suspicion and alarm. "England," he says, "is rich, prosperous, and contented beyond all former example, and the general opinion among the working classes is that if there is any well founded grievance, they may bring it forward with a confidence that it will be inquired into, and if pos sible removed." Lord Stanley goes on to advise us wisely to keep at peace with all our neighbours, and to continue in the same course of steady, consistent improvement which we have hitherto practised. Certainly this is not the language of discontent or repining, but rather of one whe has seen matters go very much as they ought, though against his own party, and is determined not to commit himself to any distinct policy other than that which has suc ceeded so well. It looks, then, very much as if the anticipations which have been ventilated so freely of late were destined to end in nothing. Lord Stanley may fairly be accepted as the representative of the good sense and the moderation of the great English people, who are of no political party at all, and who see no reason to apprehend political agitation, be cause they are conscious of having done nothing to deserve it. A few years ago such a speech as that of Lord Stanley, made by a man having held high office, and aspiring to hold it again, young, able, and am bitious, would have been an absolute impossibility, an effort of virtue of self-denial of which no man would have been found:capable. Now matters are mending so fast that political personages often receive quite as much justice from their antagonists as from their allies, and the medium through which their act Are seen by their adversaries loses almost all i t s power of distorting character. No one is sagacious enoue!' to foresee what will be the end of the pre sent Eurocaan complications, but there is no diffi culty in believing that the present Government will be judged, whatever may be the result of the Conference, in a much fairer and more equitable spirit than, political partite in this country have hitherto been in the habit of manifesting towards each other. '['here aro two difficulties' in the way of carrying a vote of' censure—the first that the mere ill success of negotiations set on foot with the best intentions, and carried on with the most praise worthy diligence, can hardly, in the present state of feeling, be imputed even to a hostile Government as a crime; and the second that, even if the Tory party were agreed upon such a censure, they are unable to satisfy the conditions of success which the House and the country require of them. Supposing that they could combine to condemn what has heed done, could they combine to point out any course for the future, to lay down any comprehensive plan of action, or indicate any rule of conduct, by following which the country would obtain a more assured and a more honourable position P The complaints that have been made take the shape of upbraiding the Ministers for not acting up to the menaces they have uttered, and for suffering themselves to be outvoted in the Conference and upbraided by Austria and Prussia without having recourse to war. But is the Tory party ready to embrace this alternative? Are they really prepared to plunge this country into a doubtful struggle with two of the greatest military Powers in the world merely to show their goodwill to another whom they are un able efficiently to assist P We oppose to such views the plain sensible declaration of Lord Stanley that so long as they are wise enough to keep at peace, the House have nothing to fear from their constituents. in other words, that the opinion of the country is strong against war, and that, there fore, the Tory party is in this dilemma—chat if it profess itself favourable to peace, it will fail for want of a cause of complaint against the Govern meent ; and if favourable to war, it will fail because the country does not share its predilection. HERALD.—It is curious to observe how the tone of the apologists of the Government varies as time goes on. It is impossible now to maintain the high pretensions which were advanced when the public were more ignorant, and, therefore, mere easily deceived, than they are new. Three months ago it was fearlessly asserted that there was nothing with which fault could be found in the conduct of Ministers, and that no phrase which could be inter preted either as a promise to Denmark or a threat to 9ertnany, had fallen from Lord Russell's pen. It is too late to hold that language now. Even from the meagre residue of despatches which Mr. Layard's careful editing has left behind there is plenty to convict Lord Russell of bluster, which'his subsequent conduct has made ridiculous, and pro mises which his timidity has converted into an indelible stain upon England's honour. These things lie upon the surface, and it is now of no use to deny their existence. Consequently the line of defence is changed. The despatches are no longer eulogised. It is admitted th a t th e Government wrote and spoke as if they intended to go to war on behalf of the Treaty of 1852. The defence is , that the Cone servatives would have d ci on ui e te no ca b p e t t i t v e a r t . ed Th th is e n m ot i a n b d l es Lord Palmerst even o a f p o M t i seemso i i g t n Y i u s p teorn ail to ia a l writers occasions, have a speakers, an d t h ey re. on pea goes a step further , and , disregarding all constitu tional decorum, is perpetually taunting the Oppo sition because they will not present him with a appears to the aged Mi n i ster a sufficient plea po li c y of their own. " W hat w ou ld your policy be P" in answer to all the charges of imbeeility and weakness that are brought against him. It seems too absurd that Ministers who are gravely incul pated should seriously imagine that it is any kind of defence to set up a hypothesis, without a shadow of proof, to the effect that their antagonists would have done no better than them selves. It is scarcely less ridiculous to see a Prime Minister trying to veil his own helpless perplexity by throwing the duty of an nouncing a policy upon those who are not charged with the duty of devising one, and who have not the official information as to the exact condition of negotiations at the moment which would enable them to do it with confelence. Still it may be worth while, as this defence is advanced with 80 much assurance, to inquire a little into the hypo' thetic:ll questions which it raises. What, then, would the Conservatives have done if they held l office for the last two or th ree y ears , which would have placed the country in a better position than i that which it holds n ow ? Th e answer s very simple. They would h ave k nown th e ir own miude. They would have dete rm i ne d h ow f a r it was the . duty and interest of England to defend Denmark; and they would have inti ma t e d th e ir decision in clear and unmistakeable terms t o D e nmark herself and to Germany. If both the Powers had known before passions grew warm that the objects were 09: wele for which E ng l an d h a d reso l ve d to fi g ht, I it vioasly improbable that any serious contest would have arisen. The mi s t a k en p ers i s t enc y with which, in the earlier p ar t o f t h e controvers y, Denmark contested some poi n t s o f mere d e t a il, u pon which needless acrimony was engen d ere d ,was produced by i a conviction whi c h L or d R usse ll h a d l e ft n the mind of the Danish Minister that England was pledged, come what might, to uphold the integrity i of the Dani s h monarc h y. T he a b so l ute ndifft rence to English threats with which Germany . hoe trodden under foot the plainest treaty obligations and the most elementary national rights was simply the result of a profound conviction that Enghl . c°, would not fight f or anyt hi ng. Th a t based upon the issue of the Polish negociatione! was disseminated widely through Europe, and has been fully justified by the result. But its existence, with all its fatal consequences, W S S, wholly due to the misconduct of the Ministers. If Ministers in power had been lees addicted to bluster and more sensitive to du: honour, both parties in the present dispute would have known from the first exactly what they might depend on, and how far they might go. Denmark would have known to what extent she might count, upon English aid, and upon what points she must trust to her own strength. Germany would have known that there was a limit beyond which she present might not step without encountering the whole. of England's power. Forewarned beforehand, neither would have drifted into this fatal struggle, from which embittered feeling and compromised hearer now forbids either to retreat. The Conservativ es have strong ground, therefore, for censuring th e Ministry, and l oo ki ng s i mply to the past. Ther e is no need to inquire whether the policy the Govern' went are now following—if they are following any at all—is a right or a wrong one. It is not ague!: tion of present poli c y. Th e question is how the men who now hold o ffi ce are fi t to be trusted wit, " any policy at all. Th ey are s i mply incompe r. ' " Their conduct upon the Danish and Polish questions has shown them to be unfit depositaries of poifer• They have dragged England's honour through the, diit. They hav e th reatene d where they dare d no t strike, and their timidity has betrayed to va l . n nations of men far no bl er t h an themselves, They have brought matt ers to t h at pass that Englan d , hl: arm is no longer feared, and England's words fail tO inspire confidence. If no alteration of policy what ever were to ensue f rom a c h ange of Governme ns D still a change is indispensable, because, if the future conduct of men may be judged by what they W e done in the past, new di s h onour awaits Englan d 8. the result of any negociation these Ministers we/ undertake. It is probable, however, that nevr mail would bring to some extent new measures, though' of course, it is diffi cu l t to speculate upon the nature or extent of any probable change of pol i f i f, unless the precise p o i nt cou l d b e fixed at which t", 3:, new corners would ha ve t o ta k e up the throw' of negociation. In any case, however, 1 1 1 n assuming that a new Government found itself 0 " much bound by its p re d ecessors ' acts as to be die' abled for the moment from going back upon rights and claims that have drifted into history, sti ll a change of Government would bring considerab le assistance to the Danes. Their position would be better fitted, their hands would be more free, even for the task of negociation. In dealing with o °' vernments of a despotic type personal feeling goes for a great deal. Now, Lord Russell has cones trived to make himself personally detestable to the two potentates whose voice will principally decide the future progress of this war. To Austria ine party is traditionally unacceptable, and a personal point has been given to the general feeling by the extravagant and inconsiderate partizanship of the Government during the disturbances of which Italy has recently been the theatre. With France h ill position ought to have been better. He h a s no no tra ditional predilecti ons to contend against, an d great question of n at i ona l po li cy has arisen on which he could well tak e a s id e openly antagonist i c to the Emperor N a p o l eon . B ut what he wanted in oppor a tunity he has made u p by i ngenu i ty. He has con trived to offer to the Emper or a d eep personal of fence upon a matter of simple form. There is no doubt, that ever since the appearance of the caustic and rude dispatch in which Lord Russell rejected the proposal for a Congress, the Emperor has been unwilling to take any p u bli c step i n conjunction with a statesman from whom he had received EO gratuitous an affront. A now Foreign Secretary would come into office exempt from these disadvana teges, and free from the personal ignominy which our ancient Pistol has justly earned. It will be something to have a Foreign Minister whose dip lomatic obligations have not been protested as dia. honoured in every Chancellerie in Europe. He will strike with more effect if vigorous measures are needed; and if the path of negociation be still open he will have a better hope of pursuing it to the at tainment of an honourab'e settlement. COUNTRY MARKETS. - --------•tom—~--------~ COLC HE STE R—JuNE 11. We had a small show of wheat on offer at this market to-day, and the trade was firm at last week's prices. Beals same as last week. No peas. Wheat, white 42s 46s Beans,Mazagan..2Bs 329 red 38s 42s middle & small.32s 3 , 63 Barley ...... 3 2s 38s Peas, white 35s 381 Oats .... NORTHAMPTON —JUN E 11. Only a moderate quantity of wheat on offer to-day NI the growers. Holders tried to est a bli s h an advance, w hich checked sales. For the best white sorts late rates were ob. tained, but other descriptions were the turn cheaper. B 3" ley very scarce, and not much life in the trade. Oats wal l a fully previous rates. B eans i n steady consumptive &man • —White wheat, new, 388 to 40s ; new red, 35s to 38 ' 3 ; old. 38s to 40s per qr. Barley, new malting, 34s to 365- - grinding, 26s to 33s per qr. Oats, 19s to 30s per 24 stop& Beans, 348 to 364. Peas, 32s to 36s per qr. UCE—JUNE 11. There was a good GLO supply of STER English wheat to-day from the farmer s , w hi c h so l d at a decline of 6d to is per qoft the prices of last week. Foreign wheat in limited denual a ° and no change in value. Barley, beans, and oats were Wl' altered. CHELMSFORD—JuxE 10. At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair sbasv,l wheat, and l ast week ' s rates were lower, with an info. business doing. I n Sp r i ng corn a steady trade , an d former prices, Wheat, old white 30s 45s new 43s 47s old red 34s 37s new 36s 40s Barley ..25s 33s Chevalier 263 36s Grinding ..20s 28s Malt.... Chevalier . 64s 68s Oats 20s 26s Peas, Partridge 36s 3 4e White 30s 34s Boiling ' . 3 Bs 42s Dun 310 361 / Ditto new --.5 . " s Beans, Tick, old 348 3 60 new - 0 -- ' s Harrow Ticks 340 36s new n 7 ,8 Mazagan ......,253 405 KIRKCALDY GRAIN—,TUNE 11. We had small supplies of all kinds of grain at markes to-day, which sold freely at the prices of last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First ....34s Od I 24s Od I 16s 6d Second ..3640d 23s Od 17s ad Third....3Bs Od —s Od 19s 6d Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and liaLilities without publicity, by appli cat i on to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy, Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments, (established 1830), 12, Hatton -garden. City bra Offices -6, Moor gate-street, Bank.—ADVT. Births. , CIIIIIICHILL.—On the 13th inst., at 16 Rulland-gate, Lady Alfred Spencer Chu rc hi ll, of a daughter. the Coo E.—On the 10th inst., at Swinton, near Rotherham , the wife of Major E. E. Cooke, of a daughter. KING.—On the 9th inst., at 37, Seymour-street, Easton' square, Mrs. Henry Ring, of a daughter. SCHUSTER.—On the 12th inst., at 18, Queen's-gate, ilYcl" park, the Lady Isabella Schuster, of a daughter. Marriage& rr in if UNDERI VOOD.—JACKSON.—On the 11th inst., at r- Church, Marylebone, Frederick James, only aurviv r y: son of Joseph Underwood, Esq., of 5, HYdelall,9 gardens, and Norwich, to Caroline, eldest survivi daughter of William Jackson, Esq., M.P. Ross.—Huni.—O n the 11th inst., at St. Mar Church, Colonel Thom as R oss, 2d b attalion 24th Reef 1 s to Fanny G er t ru d e , secon d d aughter of Char e Fre x• Huth, Esq. ylebone Deaths. CARTIVRIGHT.—On the 11th inst., at Tunbridge, Samnei Cartwright, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., aged 76. CITNYNGHAME,—On the 10th inst., at Spa, Belgium, Annie, wife of Sir David Cunynghame, of fdilncraigo Bart., aged 49. DENNllia.—On the 10th inst., at Dulwich, Stephen Poynts Denning, Esq., aged 72. LUCK. —At St. Gregory's, Ramsgate, the Rev. Alfre d Luck, 0 5.8., aged 57. SMITH. —On the Bth inst., at 23, Abbey-road, St. John's.% Wood wood, Edw ar d S m i th, Esq., aged 83. w Woo.----On the 12th i ns t., at N ewcastle-on- T yne , Win' banker, aged 78. 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